Join the CENFAD community for Dr. Evan McCormick's lecture "The Obama Oral History Project and its Meaning for American Foreign Policy". 

A historian of global politics, Evan McCormick joined Incite in 2019 as an associate research scholar on the Obama Presidency Oral History project, for which he directed the project's focus on the Obama presidency in a global context. He also leads the Obama Scholars Global Leadership Study, a ten-year prospective oral history project based on interviews with the Obama Foundation Scholars, a cohort of global change agents selected annually to spend a year at Columbia University World Projects. Evan’s research and writing focus on the history of U.S. foreign policy, the presidency, and contested ideas of security, democracy, and rights in the 20th and 21st centuries. His scholarship has appeared in Diplomatic History and the Journal of Cold War Studies, and his commentary has appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, Texas National Security Review, War on the Rocks, Clarín (Buenos Aires), and La Razón (Madrid). Evan received his PhD in History from the University of Virginia (2015) and an MA in International Relations from Yale University (2007).

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